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Global Coalition Forms to Expand School Feeding for Vulnerable Children 

Global Coalition Forms to Expand School Feeding for Vulnerable Children 

The World Food Program is leading a project to restore school feeding programs for vulnerable children who have been cut...

London Police Under Pressure Over Clashes at Women’s Protest 

London Police Under Pressure Over Clashes at Women’s Protest 

London’s Metropolitan Police was under heavy pressure Sunday to explain its actions during a vigil for a woman whom one...

British Iranian Aid Worker Appears in Iranian Court 

British Iranian Aid Worker Appears in Iranian Court 

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared before Iran’s Revolutionary Court Sunday, facing charges of “propaganda against the system.” “Legally, the court should announce the verdict...

Two Key States in Germany Hold Parliamentary Elections 

Two Key States in Germany Hold Parliamentary Elections 

Two states in Germany are voting Sunday for their new regional legislatures, six months ahead of general national elections, which...

Police Clash With Participants of Vigil for Slain British Woman

Police Clash With Participants of Vigil for Slain British Woman

Clashes broke out Saturday between police and people who gathered in defiance of coronavirus restrictions at an unofficial vigil for...

Irish Foreign Minister: Britain Guilty of ‘Perverse Nationalism’ Over US Trade

Irish Foreign Minister: Britain Guilty of ‘Perverse Nationalism’ Over US Trade

Ireland’s Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said Saturday that Britain was demonstrating “perverse nationalism” by seeking to reach a trade deal...

Lukashenko: Belarus May Submit New Eurovision Entry After Backlash 

Lukashenko: Belarus May Submit New Eurovision Entry After Backlash 

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Saturday that Belarus might submit a new entry to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest after...

Black Scholar: It’s Time France Confronts Its Colonial Past

Black Scholar: It’s Time France Confronts Its Colonial Past

A Black French scholar and expert on U.S. minority rights movements who’s taking charge of France’s state-run immigration museum says...

US Senators Condemn Russia’s ‘Assault’ on RFE/RL

US Senators Condemn Russia’s ‘Assault’ on RFE/RL

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop his country’s “state-sponsored assault on...

Police in Moscow Detain Participants of Opposition Forum

Police in Moscow Detain Participants of Opposition Forum

Russian police Saturday detained about 150 participants of a forum of independent members of municipal councils, an action that comes...

Turkish Diplomats Angered by Armenian Killer’s California Parole

Turkish Diplomats Angered by Armenian Killer’s California Parole

Turkish diplomats are outraged at California Governor Gavin Newsom’s refusal to appeal a court decision to allow parole for an...

Case of British Woman Who Vanished on Way Home Stirs Grief, Anger

Case of British Woman Who Vanished on Way Home Stirs Grief, Anger

The suspected abduction and murder of a young London woman as she walked home has dismayed Britain and revived a...

Spanish Police Seize 9-Meter Homemade Submarine

Spanish Police Seize 9-Meter Homemade Submarine

Spain’s National Police announced Friday that they had seized, a 9-meter-long, 3-meter-wide homemade submarine designed to smuggle 2 metric tons...

Armenia’s President Said to Be Back at Work After Report of COVID-19 Complications

Armenia’s President Said to Be Back at Work After Report of COVID-19 Complications

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian returned to work after undergoing a medical exam, his press office said Friday, following reports that...

Europe Welcomes Historic US Stimulus, But Some Raise Inflation Fears

Europe Welcomes Historic US Stimulus, But Some Raise Inflation Fears

European policymakers are welcoming U.S. President Joe Biden’s stimulus package amid hopes the $1.9 trillion package approved by the U.S....

Turkey Announces Talks to Reset Ties with Egypt

Turkey Announces Talks to Reset Ties with Egypt

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced high-level intelligence and diplomatic talks with Egypt on Friday. The bilateral talks are the...

Germany in Third COVID-19 Wave

Germany in Third COVID-19 Wave

German health officials Friday warned the country is facing a third wave of coronavirus infections, and the so-called British variant...

Fleeing Hong Kong: British Visas Offer ‘Lifeboat’ for Pro-Democracy Activists

Fleeing Hong Kong: British Visas Offer ‘Lifeboat’ for Pro-Democracy Activists

Britain is preparing for tens of thousands of Hong Kong citizens to apply for special visas to settle in Britain...

Facebook Scraps Trans-Pacific Cable

Facebook Scraps Trans-Pacific Cable

Facebook has scrapped plans to connect California, Taiwan and Hong Kong via a 12,000 kilometer underwater cable, citing tensions between...

After Setback, Spain’s Catalan Separatists Look for Way Forward

After Setback, Spain’s Catalan Separatists Look for Way Forward

Catalonia’s separatist movement suffered a setback this month when a deeply divided European Parliament cleared the way for exiled separatist...

European Regulator Gives Approval to Johnson & Johnson One-Shot Vaccine

European Regulator Gives Approval to Johnson & Johnson One-Shot Vaccine

The European Union’s drug regulator, the Europe Medicines Agency (EMA), has given conditional approval to Johnson & Johnson’s single dose...

‘Megxit’ Splits Britain Along Same Political, Cultural Fault Lines as Brexit

‘Megxit’ Splits Britain Along Same Political, Cultural Fault Lines as Brexit

“The monarchy is above reproach,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confidently declared a year ago. This week, following excoriating allegations...